Read XML file :
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = db.parse(new URL(url).openStream());
Parse :
File fXmlFile = new File("/Users/mkyong/staff.xml"); DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = dBuilder.parse(fXmlFile); //optional, but recommended //read this - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13786607/normalization-in-dom-parsing-with-java-how-does-it-work doc.getDocumentElement().normalize(); System.out.println("Root element :" + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName()); NodeList nList = doc.getElementsByTagName("staff"); System.out.println("----------------------------"); for (int temp = 0; temp < nList.getLength(); temp++) { Node nNode = nList.item(temp); System.out.println("\nCurrent Element :" + nNode.getNodeName()); if (nNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { Element eElement = (Element) nNode; System.out.println("Staff id : " + eElement.getAttribute("id")); System.out.println("First Name : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("firstname").item(0).getTextContent()); System.out.println("Last Name : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("lastname").item(0).getTextContent()); System.out.println("Nick Name : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("nickname").item(0).getTextContent()); System.out.println("Salary : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("salary").item(0).getTextContent()); }
References
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16958081/java-how-to-read-xml-from-url
https://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-read-xml-file-in-java-dom-parser/